Reexamination Requests Against MobilMedia And Round Rock Among Those Filed Week of 9/19/11

Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…

Last week saw a request filed by RIM against a MobileMedia patent, one of a number of mobile phone patents currently being litigated by the companies in the Eastern District of Texas (see ex parte Request No. (13)).  The MobileMedia patent, like several of those patents-in-suit, was originally assigned to Nokia.

An unnamed party filed a request against a Round Rock Researchpatent for electronic tracking (see ex parte Request No. (12)).

And CareFusion filed two requests against Vesta Medical patents for medical waste disposal systems (see ex parte Request Nos. (10) & (11)).  CareFusion set a record, we think, in August when it requested reexamination of 27 Vesta patents. (more…)

09.28.11 | Patent Litigation, Reexamination Requests | Stefanie Levine

Requests for Reexamination of 27 Vesta Medical Patents Among those Filed Week of 8/1/11

Here is the latest installment of Reexamination Requests from Scott Daniels, of Reexamination Alert and Practice Center Contributor…

It was a quiet week on the new reexamination front, except that CareFusion requested reexamination of 27 Vesta Medical patents related to disposal of medical waste.  This does not appear, however, to have been done with hostile intent since Vesta is a subsidiary of CareFusion.

Hostile intent was clearly in evidence, on the other hand, when SAP America requested reexamination of a new Wellogix patent (see inter partes Request No. (1)).  For good measure, on the same day, SAP filed a declaratory judgment action against the same Wellogix patent.

Finally, Reexamination was requested against an Intellectual Ventures patent related to field-programmable gate arrays (see ex parte Request No. (32)).  Last December IV sued Altera and two other companies for infringing on that patent, as well as four other patents.  Since reexamination has now been requested against all five IV patents-in-suit, one or more of the parties might now seek a stay of the litigation pending completion of the reexaminations.  (more…)

08.9.11 | posts, Reexamination Requests | Stefanie Levine